Warning bells for today's crisis in Shiv Sena were ringing for over two years. It's not that Sena didn't hear them. It's just that it didn't grasp the import of that warning. The leadership was lulled into a complacency by praise from self-styled 'wokes', who have actually loathed the party over the years for its 'Marathi manoos' slogan, and for its Hindutva.
The Maharashtrian community that nurtured Sena and the average Shiv Sainik, legislator and functionary had sensed what was going wrong. But the party's top decision-makers were responding to a different tune the one being played by a commentariat who wanted Sena to dump Balasaheb Thackeray's legacy. Now that a seismic shock has struck, Sena is unlikely to be the same again.
The Shiv Sainik has been called many things by many people but there was one thing the Sainik could never be accused of -disloyalty towards the founder. Sainiks were willing to live and die for Balasaheb. And the former cartoonist, a deeply perceptive politician, ensured he and his followers were in sync always, politically and ideologically.
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